2:51 PM,
Mar. 12, 2013

Interim DCS Commissioner Jim Henry appeared before the House Government Operations with more than a dozen DCS staffers, and with Larry Martin, a special adviser appointed by Gov. Bill Haslam to examine the department?s work

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The commissioner of the Department of Children's Services will be informed of the deaths of children in state custody within one hour - a new approach to handling fatalities that was explained this afternoon to lawmakers during a special hearing.

The department has also made progress on creating a new child fatality review process to learn from incidents and try to prevent them, DCS officials told lawmakers.

"For the first time, we'll have an independent person sitting on the death review panel," Jim Henry, DCS interim commissioner, told lawmakers. ...